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Adam and Eve were, in real fact, kidnapped by Satan into his way of life. They chose to follow the way of life of the kidnapper.
Adam could have qualified to RESTORE the GOVERNMENT of GOD on earth. Instead, he and his human family – this world – have to this very day been HELD CAPTIVE by Satan, who sits still on earth’s throne.
Out of Adam and Eve developed human civilization. Had Adam chosen the tree of LIFE, he would have been brought into a direct relationship with God – begotten as God’s own son. Through God’s Spirit joined with his human spirit, he would have had the ability to understand God’s spiritual purposes and knowledge and be able to develop the very mind of God. He would have been led by God in building GOD’S WORLD. Instead, he was led by Satan, and the whole world family, started through Adam, was DECEIVED into building a civilization that became SATAN’S WORLD – A WORLD HELD CAPTIVE.
It has developed into systems of government over cities and nations, an economic system, a social system – all based on the principle of “GET” rather than outflowing love, cooperation, harmony and peace. It has developed into a competitive world, based on Satan’s law – every man for himself, vanity, coveting, strife.
It might well appear that Satan struck his master stroke in kidnapping Adam, the first human, by whom God purposed to reproduce himself millions of times over. But God’s PURPOSE cannot be thwarted!
That is the reason God then, at the very time of Adam’s disobedience and kidnapping, decreed that Jesus, the “second” Adam (1 Cor. 15:45), should come. He would be God’s means of paying for the ransom to reclaim his potential children. Further, Jesus would be the SECOND ADAM. To use a modern slang term, it would be “a whole new ball game.” The very BEGOTTEN FAMILY OF GOD, for which Adam had been created, would now be started in and through the SECOND ADAM.
Jesus, unlike the first Adam, did choose the tree of LIFE. He did obey God. He met, conquered and qualified to replace Satan on the throne of the earth. At the same time, God decreed that as in Adam all would pay the penalty of DEATH, so in Christ, the second Adam, the SAME ALL would in God’s due time be resurrected again to physical life, brought to judgment, sentenced to eternal death, but then learn that their death penalty had been paid for them by Jesus Christ and the tree of LIFE then reopened to them in the Great White Throne Resurrection (Rev 20:11-12).
After some 4,000 years of the world that developed into a world of human good and satanic evils, Jesus came.
He came as the SECOND ADAM, to found GOD’S WORLD, which the first Adam failed to start.
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